Evaluation of bleeding sites with a tissue-specific sonographic contrast agent: Preliminary experiences in an animal model

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 609-616

  Goldberg, Barry B ^a   Merton, Daniel A ^a   Liu, Ji Bin ^a   Forsberg, Flemming ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Contrast agents; Hemorrhage; Ultrasonographic

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

COLOR DOPPLER IMAGING; GRAY SCALE IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SHU 563; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; NONHUMAN; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032190255     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1998.17.10.609     Document Type: Article

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